Boanne wrote:
>Well yes. In astrology all you have to be able to figure out is
>where the planets are at a particular time and place - the time
>and place of the person's birth you are figuring the chart for.
>The Zodiac is simply a circle (360 degrees divided up into
>30 degree (approx) segments. The planets move in their orbits
>through this circle. Hence when the sun is in the segment of
>the circle designated "Taurus" (so named for the constellation
>of Taurus) that person is said to have "sun in Taurus." And
>of course the same can be done for all the other planets.
Sorry, I don't know what Taurus is - the names are noticably diffrent in
swedish. But the lion is simular (and that's what I am, or atleast to some,
it differs).
Might be because I lack this special knowledge in the English language (I
guess I know 4-5 of them in English).
>Such a chart is always done from the place of the persons birth
>(longitude and latitude) and the time of their birth. Understand
>I am not a programmer and know very little about it, but -
>I would think to write a program to do this would be quite
>simple, it's all mathmatical. The requirements would be:
>1)A table of longitude and latitude
Wouldn't be that big so it's doable.
>, 2)A table of the rate of motion for each planet
And this is where the problem is if you want to have an exact sience (but I
don't count astrology as one). It would enourmous (I doubt the RAM in an
every day computer would be enough). You must understand that the planets
and moons are affected not only by the time but by their internal
positions. Besides the sun would also have to move, and that would also
affect the planets. The diffrence in the modell you use and the reality is
very small, but big enough that would make it useless for any (serious)
astronomy.
The friend I talked even did Jupiters moons and then we talk some serious
coding since they can jump and stuff several times a day depending on where
the others and Jupiter is. (I wouldn't like to live there... On second
thaught I would since it would be much cooler to live in space).
Speaking of space, NASA aren't using anything above a 386 since it isn't
needed and it's much more safe then a new computer even if they can get
down the size and thereby the weight. So why would I need the latest PC
when NASA can go out to space with less? (a 386 is a waste of computer
power for most stuff, I don't know about Hubble).
>3)A table of time conversion to convert whatever time the person was born
to Greenwich,
No need for a table, it's easy to let the user input this data.
>4)A table of the Zodiac with degrees, and the segments or signs.
Of course.
>Then all
>the program has to do is the math. As I said, I'm no programmer
>but even way back then in 1987 someone else had already written
>a program to do astrology charts. I registered it and am still
>using it happily.
It's just a model, and isn't more exact then needed for your use.
>Up until recently (when I began studying assembly language and it
>is going v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y) the closest I have come to
>programming in batch files and writing HTML. I can write a mean
>batch file if I do say so myself, and I'm not bad at HTML either
>if you don't count java and cgi.
Java and CGI doesn't have anything to do with HTML. Learning CGI can
however be enough to get high paid jobs. Java I never understood the
meaning of since it's so slow (what happend with Suns JavaBlaster?)
>And of course I learn a lot here in the list too :)
I think we all learn from it, I can atleast say that my english has
improved under the last year that I've switched (more than 99%) of my
Internet use to English. But that could also have something to do with the
fact that I have only read English books (except two schoolbooks) the last
year. (Strange thing is that I probably still speak better english then I
write... And I was only in England for a week a few years ago.)
>}- Perhaps not, but you never know ;)
>
>Actually I'm probably even more weird than you thought I was...
><grin>
Perhaps, but I guess I'm much weirder then you think.
>}- }- *This message written with 100% recycled electrons.
>
>}- There was a program for Win 3.x that did that! (Ok, it just
>}- showed the user a few images and some stats on how many
>}- electrons that where damaged or bad in the computer.)
>
>You're kidding!? Why? Does this have a practical purpose?
I'm not kidding. The practical purpose was the same that Tetris had (if we
trust the rumours it was designed to make the free market crash since
everyone would play it instead. Now with even more games it seems that it
has partly suceeded). I know I spend to much time playing (S)NES games
instead of doing usefull things, but the memories are to sweat... I just
love to play a few MIDIs up that I've downloaded. Can a computer be used
for better things than to play Zelda, Bubble Bobble, Super Mario or some
other classic games music? I don't think so! (Ok, it's more fun to play the
games, but I would like to get a NES joystick (note not a SNES look-a-like
I've got two of those already) to get the ultimate feeling.)
Seriously it had no use at all. I think I could put a program that does the
same thing together in less than 5 minutes (and so could everyone that can
make something appear random).
//Bernie
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